William Wardell's 1859 St John's College - a rare realisation of Pugin's ideal Catholic College?  de Jong, Ursula 2011, William Wardell's 1859 St John's College - a rare realisation of Pugin's ideal Catholic College? , Fabrications, vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 86-107. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title William Wardell's 1859 St John's College - a rare realisation of Pugin's ideal Catholic College?  Author(s) de Jong, Ursula Journal name Fabrications Volume number 20 Issue number 12 Start page 86 End page 107 Total pages 22 Publisher University of Queensland Press Place of publication Brisbane, Qld. Publication date 2011-12 ISSN 1033-1867 2164-4756 Summary William Wardell’s St John’s College, Sydney, considered the grandest and architecturally most distinguished university college in New South Wales, is an exceptional example of 19th century Gothic Revival architecture.  The information board outside the college states that St John’s is ‘a rare realisation of Pugin’s ideal Catholic College’ and further that ‘it demonstrates [Pugin]’s profound influence on the work of Wardell’. This is but a small part of the story. The commission for St John’s College was far more complex.  The correspondence between the architects, William Wardell, Edmund Blacket and others, and St John’s Council indicates that right from the beginning there was a general lack of understanding of Wardell’s original design concept for the building. This has continued to the present day, as evidenced by the information on the board outside St John’s College, in which it is incorrectly assumed that Wardell’s proposal included a quadrangle as featured in Pugin’s ‘ideal College’. This paper, based largely on primary sources, investigates such claims about St John’s, considers William Wardell and the Gothic Revival, examines St John’s College within the University of Sydney – its design and its translation and posits a few conclusions leading to new understandings. Language eng Field of Research 120103 Architectural History and Theory Socio Economic Objective 970112 Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2011 Copyright notice ©2011, University of Queensland Press Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30045017 Document type: Journal Article Collection: School of Architecture and Built Environment   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 07 May 2012, 15:19:48 EST Mon, 07 May 2012, 16:00:56 EST Wed, 09 May 2012, 12:01:44 EST Wed, 09 May 2012, 12:02:41 EST Wed, 09 May 2012, 12:03:14 EST Thu, 21 Feb 2013, 13:16:26 EST Mon, 03 Jun 2013, 16:27:23 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 14:01:22 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 266 Abstract Views, 5 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 May 2012, 15:19:32 EST by Sandra Dunoon

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